Carlos Pizarro Leongomez

Carlos Pizarro Leongomez (6 June 1951-26 April 1990) was the fourth leader of the M-19 guerrilla group in Colombia and a presidential candidate with the Democratic Alliance M-19 party.

Biography
Carlos Pizarro Leongomez was born on 6 June 1951 in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, the son of Admiral Juan Antonio Pizarro. He joined the Communist Youth Party while studying law at the National University of Colombia, and he joined FARC at the age of 18 during the Colombian Conflict before forming the M-19 movement in 1973 with Jaime Bateman Cayon, Alvaro Fayad, Luis Otero Cifuentes, and Vera Grabe in response to the fradulent 18 April 1970 elections. In 1974, he stole the sword of Simon Bolivar as a symbol of the war that engulfed the country, and M-19 carried out several terrorist attacks against the government. In April 1989, after many years of warfare, he eventually decided to transition to political struggle and began disarming his fighters, forming the Democratic Alliance M-19 political party. However, on 26 April 1990 he was assassinated on a plane by a paramilitary thug, and Antonio Navarro Wolff took over the leadership of M-19.